The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1887-08-18
How Coffee Affects Persons.
Coffee owes its stimulating and refresh.
ing qualities to caffeine. It also contains

Coffee owes its stimulating and refresh.
ing qualities to caffeine. talso contains
gum and sugar, fat, acids, casein and
wood fibre. Like tea, it powerfully in.
creases the respiration, but, unlike it,
does not affect its depth. BY its use the
rate of the pulse is increased and the
action of the skin diminished. 1t less.
ems the amount of blood sent to the
organs of the body, distends the veins
and contracts the capillaries, thus pre-.
venting waste of tissue. 1t is a mental
stimulus Of high order and one that is
liable 10 great abuse. Through its fasci.
nations the scholar burns the midnight
oil ond too rapidly reduces his store of
vital force. To some temperaments it
may be called poison. Carried to ex.
cess it produces abnormal wakefulness,
indigestion, acidity, heartburn, tremors,
debility, irritability of temper, tremb.
ling, irregular pulse, kind of intoxica.
tion ending in delirium, and great injury
to the spinal functions. Unfortunately
there are many coffee tipplers who de.
dend upon it as drunkard Upon his
dram.
On the other hand, coffee is of sover.
eigu efficacy in tidiDg over the nervous
system in emergencies. Soldiers in the
late war declared they could march long.
er and endure more hardship under the
stimulus of coffee than under that of
liquor. During their long predatory ex.
cursions the tribes of central Africa sub.
sist for many days at a time on mixture
of coffee and butter. Made into balls an
iuch and half in diameter, one lasts
man during twenty four hours. The
Belgian coal miners live on less quan.
tity of solid food than the French miners,
who are furnished with smaller amount
of coffee.
Coffee is also, 10 its place. an excellent
medicine. In typhoid fever its action is
frequently prompt and decisive. 1t is
indicated in the early stages before local
complications arise. Coffee dispels stu
por and lethargy, is an antidote for many
kinds of poison and is valuable in spas.
modic asthma, whooping cough, cholera
infantum and Asiatic cholera.
1t is also excellent as preventive
against infectious and epidemic diseases.
In districts rife with malaria and fever
the drinking of hot coffee before passing
into the open air has enabled persons
living in such places to escape contagion.
Probably the nervous system is aroused
to q positive condition in which fever
germs are rendered inn6cuous.
That coffee is O medicine in cases of
extreme alcoholism is we'll known, but it
is hardly understood to what extent this
exhilarating and potent beverage might
be used in place of liquor. Coffee
houses, where all the accessories are
cheerful and wholesome for mind and
body, greatly tend to diminish drunken.
ness. In the city of Birmingham, Eng.
land, according to the report of the
American Consul few years since, the
seventeen temperance coffee houses in
operation received the patronage of 90
900 men daily, six days in the week.
"And," he truly adds, ga large proper.
tion of these visitors would otherwise
have spent their evenings and their
earnings in liquor saloons."-Hestcr ~.
Poole in Good Housekeeping.